Blue Penguin

A moving fable about friendship and belonging from award-winning illustrator Petr Horácek.

Far away, near the South Pole, a blue penguin is born. It is not something you see every day. "I feel like a penguin," says Blue Penguin. "But you’re not like us," the others tell him. Blue Penguin can’t jump or dive very well, so the others wander off and leave him behind. In his loneliness, Blue Penguin begins to dream, and he starts to sing. Will he ever convince the other penguins that he is one of them? Beautifully illustrated in icy blue hues, Blue Penguin is an affecting ode to self-expression and connection by a picture book creator whom the Washington Post has called "the thinking tot’s Eric Carle."(Hardcover, 2016-12-13)

Shunned by the other penguins, the titular penguin’s days are filled with loneliness and his nights with dreams.

“Far away, near the South Pole,” a blue penguin hatches, “not something you see every day.” The other penguins decide that he’s “not like us” and wander away. Blue Penguin is left all alone. His days are “filled with emptiness,” but he dreams at night of being rescued from loneliness by a beautiful white whale. Blue Penguin makes up a song about the whale and sings it every morning, attracting the ...

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